How to Use alarming in a Sentence

alarming

adjective

• That doesn’t sound alarming, unless one dives more deeply into the data.
  — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
• Killings in the city and around the country began an alarming spike in 2020.
  — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2022
• The shooting death of a Milwaukee postal worker is alarming.
  — Camille C. Knox, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2022
• At once laughable and alarming, playful and lethal, the work still lands like a psychological time bomb.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• As a result, the boots are being duped at an alarming rate at places like Amazon and Target.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 31 Oct. 2024
• Scientists have expected to see signs of stress in the forests, but the suddenness of the spike in mortality was alarming.
  — Gabrielle Canon, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2022
• Plus, cold shock induces uncontrollable hyperventilating as the lungs contract, which can be alarming for first-timer plungers.
  — Brianna Randall, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
• The pair's Dancing With the Stars pals quickly flooded their comments with love and support following the alarming announcement.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• Despite this alarming figure, writing deficiencies get little notice.
  — Colette Coleman, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Yet things took an alarming turn when the Giants canceled a Tuesday press conference believed to be Correa’s introduction.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
• So yes, the French right is bad, and its rise is alarming.
  — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
• One of the most alarming side harms, and one of the most-discussed, are the wounds that xylazine use can cause.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• That’s alarming for the prospects of a just transition.
  — Morgan R. Frank, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• The White House bulletin on the health of Woodrow Wilson was alarming.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
• The teen is part of an alarming trend among the country's K-12 students.
  — Leigh Paterson, NPR, 18 May 2024
• Sweeney plays Claire, who shows up at the doorstep of her mother, Kate (Moore), in an alarming state.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
• According to a new study, the news there is alarming as well.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 July 2024
• In the 1960s, heroin use in the United States was rising at an alarming pace.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• The data showed an alarming 937% increase in babies over the past decade.
  — Theara Coleman, theweek, 24 June 2024
• An alarming new study in the journal Nature shows how bad the problem could get in 32 coastal cities in the United States.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
• Most alarming to some are the dire news stories about a violent new gang.
  — Martin Kaste, NPR, 9 May 2024
• The numbers have been alarming: In December, just 1,281 pounds of crawfish moved through the dock.
  — Rick Rojas Emily Kask, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• South Korea’s birth rate has reached alarming new lows.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2023
• Nothing alarming came from the NFL’s new kickoff rules.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024
• Across the country, thieves are still driving off with the vehicles at an alarming rate.
  — Tom Krishner, oregonlive, 9 May 2023
• Because dust storms weren’t all that common in this area about a decade and a half ago, this statistic is quite alarming.
  — Korin Miller, Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2024
• That’s not to say that the alarming month that has just passed is solely a result of a hotter atmosphere.
  — Brady Dennis and Scott Dance, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• The rate at which animals are being let down is an alarming pace.
  — Kelli Bender, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• Recent data from the CDC found alarming rates of sadness among teen girls.
  — Caitlin Gilbert, Lindsey Bever, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Parts of Antarctica have been seeing alarming changes for a while.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 30 July 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024